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PEOPLES' FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA

          Peoples' Friendship University of Russia is in actual fact not just a unique higher educational establishment, but it also reflects most of the new trends typical to a big number of higher education institutions of Russia. It is particularly vital nowadays in terms of a complex reorganization process of higher education in Russia as well as educational system as a whole. First of all, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia is almost the only university of this country, initially set up as a "classic" university, which provides training for future engineers, medics, agronomists, economists, physicists, lawyers and other specialists of 35 areas of studies. Secondly, it is the first to introduce a two-level system of higher education on a pilot basis and still in the framework of former USSR, long before it was accepted in other countries of the CIS. Finally, and most importantly, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia is the only higher educational establishment within the CIS, whose name is the "trademark of the University" and which is in actual fact a University of Friendship. As a consequence it is necessary to train skilled personnel not just for foreign countries, the CIS states but for national educational establishments of Russia too and thus to contribute greatly to solving a great deal of this country's geopolitical problems.
          Considering this aspects, Prof. Evgeny Martynenko has spent most of his training experience in learning the aspects to improve the higher educational system with particularly regard to the West European ones in order to get the information for the development of the Russian Universities. He paid also more attention to the International environment from the humanitarian and public Law grounding and in different Russian academic Conferences he underlined the need to improve the quality of the Russian Certification as far as Doctorate (Aspirantura, Doktor Nauk) is concerned.
         Because of his great experience and after a large number of discussion among the people involved in this project on the possibility of implementing a program called "European Studies at the Universities of the Russian Federation" (EUROSTAR) about the development of the teachers' and students' training and the study of the most important aspects of the European surrounding (civil and society, economics and institutions related to the process of the Enlargement of EU). Mr. Alessandro Figus invited Prof. Martynenko at the University of Genova where he met Prof. Antonio Guerci and his collaborator Dr. Diana Spulber as a language support and Ph.D. in anthropological and psychological sciences.

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES (DISA)

          The Department of Anthoropological Sciences (DISA) of the University of Genoa, held by Prof. Antonio Guerci, has been conceived of as a melting pot of all the disciplines and research lines relating to the field of Human Sciences and European Culture.
          More precisely, the research areas and cultural scope of the Department revolve around the thorough and detailed understanding of man from a scientific point of view. Starting with the analysis of the biological and physical bases and later through the study of the genesis and formation of man's psyche and personality, DISA researchers aim at reflecting upon the possibility of training the human being.
          The cultural project of the Department may be synthesised as follows:
  • A great interest in when and how personality unbinds itself of the genetic ties and turns into a psycho-social structure
  • An unbiased attitude towards the cultural context, which is seen as the intersection of the biological project
  • Particular interest in communication, language and cognitive processes as the means of bio-social adaptation
  • The need for the analysis, interpretation and ensuing empirical assessment of the models of training interaction in the different cultural contexts
  • The study of the health-case strategies adopted by different populations over time and across space as a result of man's adaptation to eco-environments and as a transition from biology to culture.

DEPARTMENT POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (DISPOS)

          Many of these research have benn made in collaboration with the Department Political and Social Sciences (DISPOS) of the University of Genova where thre are others experts in the European studies and a long experience in the study of the political development in the Eastern Europe and Russia. In that meeting, Prof. Guerci and his assistant Prof. Alessandro Figus introduced Prof. Martynenko to: Prof. Giorgio Sola, the Director of the DISPOS, to Mr. Angelo Musaio, the administrative manager of the Department and to Dr. Mara Morini as a language support and Phd in effective and plan all the aspects and timing of this project.           The Department of the social and political sciences has given birth to national and international collaborations with the following Universities and Centers:
  • Inter-disciplinary Center of "Political Sociology" at the University of Florence;
  • Comparative Internaitonal Research at the University of Yale and Twenty;
  • Research on comparative political systems at the Oxford Brookes University;
  • The State University of Moldova and of Bakou (AZB);
  • ''European Integration and Democratic Process Center''.
          Moreover, the DISPOS has always been operative in this sector with some European projects such as the Tempus Tacis project (JEP: 10229.96 AZB) on "Europe Mer-Caspienne" for the reorganization and opening of the Faculty of International Relations at the University of Rassoulzade of Bakou (AZB) with partnership of the University of Nice and the Tempus Tacis (JEP:1043498 UKR) on the "Training of Marine Lawyers in European Law. Modernisation of Teaching in the Field of the European Sea Law in OSMU - Odessa state Maritime University (Ukraine).

THE UNIVERSITY OF NICE-ANTIPOLIS

          The University of Nice-Antipolis has already been part of other programmes Tempus connected with the academic management project:
  • Tempus Tacis (JEP: 22041.01 MLD) ''The modernisation of the management of the University of Cahul;
  • Tempus Tacis (JEP:22031.01) ''The training of specialists in sea transport management - Odessa National Maritime University (Ukraine).
          At the University of Nice-Antipolis there is also a ''Center of Cooperation with the Eastern Counrtries'' CPE that has contributed to develop the internaitonal relations with the Russophile countries. Prof. Jean Paul Nivoix, economist, is a right person to develop the language center. In fact he is the Vice President of French Association of Applied Foreign Language and he is expert of Applied European Languages.

KUBAN STATE UNIVERSITY

          For the last 5 years the scientists of Kuban State University (KubSU) have been taking an active part in research work on more than 250 scientific projects carried out within the framework of 4 International, 6 Federal and 25 Regional scientific and technical programs. Scientists, teachers, undergraduate and post-graduate students of KubSU won more than 150 grants in various fields of science, technology, education and culture. Agreements on cooperation between Kuban State University and University of Tennessee, Ohio State University, Wisconsin-Madison (USA) have been made. The Rector Mr. Vladimir Babeshko is the Vice President of the Rector Board of Russian Federation agrees the creation of European Studies doctorate like the Vice Rector Mr. Gavrilov, scientific development professor at Kuban State University. Also the Local Government support our project (see support letter from the Director of Education Mrs A. Ivanova).